Laptop using CPU cycles while idle

Rmatin04 · 19th February 2006, 3:57 PM

I have recently bought an Acer TravelMate 4060, Pentium M 2.0Ghz and 1GB of ram.

The problem I am having is the CPU seems to be sitting around 40-60% usage even when its doing nothing.

I have a Logitech G15 keyboard hooked up to it temporarily and i thought that may have been using cycles to run the LCD display but unplugging that had no effect.

The only processes in the task manager are things like explorer, nothing is actually running anything intensive but it is still using 50% of the CPU.

This problem seems to have only occured in the last week or so.

bsbozzy · 19th February 2006, 9:50 PM

Windows could possibly be indexing your file system

19th February 2006, 3:57 PM	#1
Rmatin04 Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,064	Laptop using CPU cycles while idle I have recently bought an Acer TravelMate 4060, Pentium M 2.0Ghz and 1GB of ram. The problem I am having is the CPU seems to be sitting around 40-60% usage even when its doing nothing. I have a Logitech G15 keyboard hooked up to it temporarily and i thought that may have been using cycles to run the LCD display but unplugging that had no effect. The only processes in the task manager are things like explorer, nothing is actually running anything intensive but it is still using 50% of the CPU. This problem seems to have only occured in the last week or so. __________________ Core 2 Duo E6850, ASUS P5E Corsair TWIN3X2048-1333C9DHX 2GB, XFX 8800GTX

19th February 2006, 9:50 PM	#2
bsbozzy Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Sydney Posts: 3,541	Windows could possibly be indexing your file system